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100 Books that Changed the World

A thought-provoking chronological timeline of the world¿s most influential books.

A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris - Edited with Introduction and Commentary

A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive, creatively interp...

Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Greatest Detective in the World

From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's...

A Guest Among Stars

A Guest Among Stars collects recent essays by one of the most respected poet-critics of our time. Mark Ford discusses poets and their wor...

Anne of Green Gables

Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Using a perfect mix of tradition and the very...

Another North

Another North is a paean to the material world—food, clothing, cars, and houses, of course, but also to wastrel beauty that serves no pur...

A Radiant Birth - Advent Readings for a Bright Season

"In this volume, Christian literary writers of the Chrysostom Society reflect on Advent and Christmastide as a bright and meaningful seas...

Archy and Mehitabel

archy and mehitabel is a collection of humorous verses by Don Marquis, originally published from 1916 onwards in Marquis's newspaper colu...

Aristotle on Accidental Causation

This major new study of Aristotle's natural philosophy connects it to modern theories of causation and provides fresh interpretations of ...

A Room of One's Own

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia WoolfâEUR(TM)s classic plea for aworld in which women are free to use their gifts. ...

A Room of One's Own

Auctor and Actor - A Narratological Reading of Apuleius's The Golden Ass

"A brilliant book. . . . In recapturing the exquisite ambiguity of Apuleius's Golden Ass, John J. Winkler has taken one of the liveliest ...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

'She is alive and active - we hear her voice and trace her influence even now' Virginia Woolf Writing in an age when the call for the rig...

Batgirl and Beyond - The Dynamic History of the Heroines of Gotham City

For over sixty years, the women who took on the mantle of Batgirl have served as inspirational superheroes for legions of underrepresente...

Batman and the Shadows of Modernity - A Critical Genealogy on Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism

It is a multidisciplinary work that brings together comic studies, philosophical criticism and literary criticism to try to reconstruct t...

Black Speculative Feminisms - Memory and Liberated Futures in Black Women's Fiction

Charts the moments in Black women's science fiction and fantasy where characters harness, or fail to harness, the power of memory, transf...

Blurb Your Enthusiasm - An A-Z of Literary Persuasion. A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets

A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets

Cahier

A collection of poetic stream-of-consciousness prose meditations by Friederike Mayröcker. Friederike Mayröcker has no time. Not for summa...

Callimachus: Select Longer Fragments

This edition of Callimachus' select larger fragments and epigrams offers an indispensable guide for properly appreciating his poetic art....

Cassandra - A Dramatic Poem

In Lesia Ukrainka's rendering, Cassandra's prophecies are uttered in highly poetic language and are not believed for that reason, rather ...

Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript - Speculation, Shapes, Delight

"In this book, Arthur Bahr takes a fresh look at a much-studied, unique object in English literature: the four poems and many illustratio...

Children's Literature Review - Excerts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such notable figures as Lo...

Children's Literature Review - Excerts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such notable figures as Lo...

Children's Literature Review - Excerts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such notable figures as Lo...

Children's Literature Review - Excerts from Reviews, Criticism, and Commentary on Books for Children and Young People

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such notable figures as Lo...

Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition)

This is a collection of all 37 of Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies and historical plays in a leatherbound edition. Also features his com...

Contemporary Translation in Transition - Poems, Theories, Conversations

This volume brings together an international group of scholars, poets, translators, and publishers to explore new developments in both po...

Crime Fiction in the Age of #Metoo

Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the age of #metoo.

Dante's Divine Comedy - A Biography

Detective Fiction on the Case of Community - The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern

It examines one of modernity's most trenchant problems.The project rests on the argument that detective fiction emerges specifically from...

Difficult Ornaments - Florida and the Poets

This book draws on the works and lives of six poets, illustrating how the state of Florida inspired twentieth-century poets to new subjec...

Dissident Gut - Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties of the modern peristalt...

East Side Voices - Essays celebrating East and Southeast Asian identity in Britain

A first-of-its-kind essay anthology that showcases the brightest East and Southeast Asian voices in Britain today, on a broad range of su...

Edith Wharton - A Study of Her Fiction

Blake Nevius's close analysis and appraisal of Edith Wharton's novels and stories reveals the modernity of her fiction and shows why she ...

Eduardo Galeano: Through The Looking Glass - Through The Looking Glass

Eduardo Galeano--the single most important literary voice to come out of Latin America in the last decades.

Edward Lear

James Williams's account, the first book-length critical study of the poet since the 1980s, sets out to re-introduce Lear and to accord h...

Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists - A Book of Bookish Lists

Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonaut...

Epic Egos and Half-Baked Heroes

This is a book about divine dicks, mortal pricks, and some epically long-suffering women.

Essays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy - A Thirty-Year Creative Reading Workshop

Merging autobiography and literary criticism, Daniel Morris illustrates in sixteen essays how he learned to attend to avant-garde contemp...

Ezra Jack Keats at Play in the World of Children's Books

Fanfiction as Queer Healing - Femslash Authorship and the Swan Queen Ship

Exploring the phenomenon of Femslash fanfiction (fan narratives that bring together heterosexual female characters from mainstream media ...

Faulkner's People - A Complete Guide and Index to the Characters in the Fiction of William Faulkner

Faulkner's People is an essential reference for the student and general reader of Faulkner who seeks guidance in identifying and interrel...

Feeding the Monster - Why horror has a hold on us

Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding. Horror has been embraced by mainstream p...

Finding the Way to 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' - Eugene O'Neill and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill at Tao House

A profound new way to approach Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpi...

Geographical Imaginations - Literature and the 'Spatial Turn'

The book is aimed at providing a short introduction to the divergent ways in which space and place evince themselves in literature. With ...

Gothic - An Illustrated History

A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and film.

Hanshan: Cold Mountain Poems

Long ranking among the most inspiring works of world literature, the poems of Hanshan (whose name means Cold Mountain), were written at l...

Harryette Mullen, Her Silver-Tongued Companion - Reading Poems by Harryette Mullen

[headline]The first critical edition of Harryette Mullen's remarkable poetry, from her early works to the present-day Harryette Mullen is...

Histrionic Hamlet - Shakespeare's Ultimate Metatheatrical Experiment

An original intervention in the critical history of Shakespeare's most famous play, Histrionic Hamlet argues that the Danish Prince is a ...

How Plato Writes - Perspectives and Problems

Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and impressive versatility. His dialogues not only engage in argument but also abound in alleg...

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Whatever the merits of Proust's work, even a fervent admirer would be hard pressed to deny one of its awkward features: length. A novel i...

How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator

An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty and iconoclastic take on the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology

How to Read Middle English Poetry

A textbook that introduces students to Middle English poetry and offers advice about the understanding and interpretation of the genre, c...

How to Write About Africa

A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life 'In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country....

Ideas in Literature III.: Dimensions

Industrial Literature and Authors - Labor, Factory Utopias, and Testimonial Intent

In analyzing relevant texts, and particularly the novels by Paolo Volponi and Ottiero Ottieri, the book focuses on the previously overloo...

Inheritance and Speculation in Victorian Fiction - Finance, Family, and the Law

This book investigates how Victorian fiction reconfigures the narrative and social conventions of inheritance by revealing its unsettling...

Introduction to Translation and Interpreting Studies

A unique and balanced combination of translation and interpreting studies, edited and written by leading voices in the fields In Introduc...

In Writing - Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation

Hattie Crisell invites some of our most-read authors, poets, journalists and screenwriters to share their secrets, as she asks them: wher...

Is Free Speech Under Threat?

One big question. Two great answers. In Is Free Speech Under Threat? two leading thinkers tackle the issue at the very heart of the cultu...